January serves up a slew of food shows on TV

A slew of new and returning TV shows about food — several of them featuring Chicago-area denizens — are hitting the small screen in January.

The ovens are still warm from last season’s pint-sized cooking competition,“MasterChef Junior,” but ratings-starved Fox is wasting no time serving up another helping at 7 p.m. Tuesday on WFLD-Channel 32.

A couple of Chicago-area kids — 12-year-old Jack and 9-year-old Philly — are among the 19 child chefs looking to wow the judges’ taste buds on the Gordon Ramsay-hosted series, where local toque Graham Elliot is on the judging panel.